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. >>> good morning, i'm mara schiavocampo. another military milestone. today, the secretary of defense is expected to announce by unanimous recommendation of the joint chiefs of staff that he's lifting the ban that prevent s female soldiers and marines from serve on the lines of combat. here's nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: for the past ten years, u.s. military women have served on the front lines in both iraq and afghanistan, but never allowed in direct ground combat roles. lifting the 20 year ban against women in combat will ultimately put them directly in the heat of battle. it opens some 237,000 combat positions to women. women will be assigned to roles communication, logistics and drivers. gradually, they'll work closer to battle as medics are. before they become infantry troops. women have paid the ultimate price of war. 152 u.s. military women have been killed in iraq and afghanistan. tammy duckworth lost both of her legs as an army helicopter pilot in iraq. she says lifting the ban will level the playing field. >>
. >>> good morning, i'm mara schiavocampo. another military milestone. today, the secretary of defense is expected to announce by unanimous recommendation of the joint chiefs of staff that he's lifting the ban that prevent s female soldiers and marines from serve on the lines of combat. here's nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: for the past ten years, u.s. military women have served on the front lines in both iraq and afghanistan, but never allowed in...
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mara, isn't it? mara. we want to acknowledge those wonderful long armers that let us keep making tops. we hope you try a quilt with techniques you've never used. grab a pencil... tips and other useful information coming up next. the first tip is really really awesome, i think. joyce james from chico, california says when she makes a quilt for family or friends, she presents it in a pillowcase on which she's sewn a leftover block. a king-sized pillowcase is large enough, joyce says, to store linens and shams along with the quilt. fabulous idea. great idea. we have some very smart viewers out there. i've got to explain this. this is from lois lowry also from corona, california. i've been quilting for thirty years. i never thought of this. say you want to use this blue fabric for your binding and you don't have enough fabric you can cheat by lining it by sewing a muslin strip to your binding strip. in other words, for a 2 1/4 inch binding you're going to cut your fabric you like 1 1/2 inches. lining strips of
mara, isn't it? mara. we want to acknowledge those wonderful long armers that let us keep making tops. we hope you try a quilt with techniques you've never used. grab a pencil... tips and other useful information coming up next. the first tip is really really awesome, i think. joyce james from chico, california says when she makes a quilt for family or friends, she presents it in a pillowcase on which she's sewn a leftover block. a king-sized pillowcase is large enough, joyce says, to store...
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mara liasson, national public radio. syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. obviously, tucker, good news is two americans we know are safe. we don't know about the others and there could be several owes. >> there is much we don't know. this is what we doe no. it could be a harbinger of other strategy of al-qaeda and terror groups. if you want to call disruption to the united states and west, do you halftime an airliner or disrupt the energy supply? it's easier to do the latter. there are refineries through the gulf, of course. but there is also oil producing nations across the globe that get very little attention and are key to the petroleum supply. indonesia, malaysia, nigeria, guinea. how hard would it be for the terrorist group to disrupt refining in the country and not so hard. not any country so far as i know is protected by u.s. forces. this is a major vulnerability and could be harbinger to come. >> bret: we had two chairs of committee in the house talking about this today. take a listen, the house foreign relations. >> it's clear that they began this
mara liasson, national public radio. syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. obviously, tucker, good news is two americans we know are safe. we don't know about the others and there could be several owes. >> there is much we don't know. this is what we doe no. it could be a harbinger of other strategy of al-qaeda and terror groups. if you want to call disruption to the united states and west, do you halftime an airliner or disrupt the energy supply? it's easier to do the latter. there...
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mara schiavocampo is next. once again the house caucus going in at 1:00 this afternoon. i'm chris jansing. see you back here tomorrow at 10:00 a am eastern for jansing & company. have a happy new year. i have lost 101 lbs on weight watchers online. i just got started and i'm like "hey, that first 20 came off, well it wasn't too hard at all." i love breads. you can still eat bread. i love my sweets. i can still have a cookie on weight watchers. i love the barcode scanner. occasionally, i'll use it at the bar. of course! that's what it's for, right? bar code. oh i think i'm never going there again. i feel healthy. and just...young again. [ female announcer ] weight watchers online. the power of weight watchers completely online. join for free today. i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy... instead i got heartburn. [ horse neighs ] hold up partner. prilosec isn't for fast relief.
mara schiavocampo is next. once again the house caucus going in at 1:00 this afternoon. i'm chris jansing. see you back here tomorrow at 10:00 a am eastern for jansing & company. have a happy new year. i have lost 101 lbs on weight watchers online. i just got started and i'm like "hey, that first 20 came off, well it wasn't too hard at all." i love breads. you can still eat bread. i love my sweets. i can still have a cookie on weight watchers. i love the barcode scanner....
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you've been with the president all through this journey and i was struck something his biographer david mara nis noted. he said in the second term, it is less likely to contradict his will to do good. he's going to act with more assurance and he's going to show who he really is in his second term. is that what you see? >> well, i think one of his great strengths is his authenticity. he's always been the same person but i do think that it's clear, there's a huge consensus in the country about how he ought to approach the deficit and immigration and gun safety and i don't think he's going to be very frustrated if washington is completely divorced from the reality in the country so he's going to seek common ground. he's going to find every way to compromise but he's going to be pretty clear and we're also going to bring the american people more into the debate than the first term. >> what's the big difference in the president obama that took the oath four years ago and tomorrow. >> there's atmospheric differences. we had an economy collapsing all around us and he was a first term president and
you've been with the president all through this journey and i was struck something his biographer david mara nis noted. he said in the second term, it is less likely to contradict his will to do good. he's going to act with more assurance and he's going to show who he really is in his second term. is that what you see? >> well, i think one of his great strengths is his authenticity. he's always been the same person but i do think that it's clear, there's a huge consensus in the country...
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and as mara schiavocampo reports, many women are trading in diet plans for a new approach to healthy living. >> reporter: it's the most common of resolutions -- >> 23 pounds in just six weeks. oh, yeah. >> reporter: to lose weight in the new year. >> i was always on some new life-stopping diet. >> and then, weight watchers. >> reporter: and january officially marks the peak of dieting season. but a new study by the npd group, a consumer research firm that studies trends, indicates the dieting season is not what it used to be. and more americans are ditching their diets. close to 20% of adults reported being on a diet last year, down from 31% in 1991. >> go. >> reporter: women are leading the way in the decline. 23% said they were on a diet in 2012 compared to 34% 20 years ago. analysts say the trend is part of a more relaxed attitude toward weight overall as the number of overweight americans grows, so does acceptance in what's described as one of the biggest changes in health attitudes of the last 30 years. the same study found 23% say thin people are more attractive than their over
and as mara schiavocampo reports, many women are trading in diet plans for a new approach to healthy living. >> reporter: it's the most common of resolutions -- >> 23 pounds in just six weeks. oh, yeah. >> reporter: to lose weight in the new year. >> i was always on some new life-stopping diet. >> and then, weight watchers. >> reporter: and january officially marks the peak of dieting season. but a new study by the npd group, a consumer research firm that...
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an issue that mara has been interested in as well, if you are same-sex married even in a state where it's legal and your partner is international, they could be deported. it could separate families. >> immigration reform, instead of making the assumptions, immigration has to have a broader, more inclusive definition that includes the different forms of family. >> it's right, but we do want our couples included. this is true. we also know that there are zillions of dreamers who are lgbt. >> do we have a graphic for that, zillions? >> we want to make sure there's a pathway for all immigrants. >> i wonder about that. by taking it to the immigration question, part of what you have done is remind us of the intersection. for a lot of folks, what is interesting in watching the first african-american also become, you know, not gay in terms of self-identity but the first gay president for the push at the federal level. those are the intersections that have been most difficult to build in terms of coalition. >> yeah. i think that's right and i think we are all getting better at that. i think t
an issue that mara has been interested in as well, if you are same-sex married even in a state where it's legal and your partner is international, they could be deported. it could separate families. >> immigration reform, instead of making the assumptions, immigration has to have a broader, more inclusive definition that includes the different forms of family. >> it's right, but we do want our couples included. this is true. we also know that there are zillions of dreamers who are...
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i'm mara phrasing it but. >> [ra is bipartisan group of millions of americans want to protect the second amendment and aproves from many senators and house members. hear them smeared as extremists is ridiculous. they have constitutionally to then together to protect their rights. the legislative hurdle is high. that is why he came out with the executive orders. i think he blinked a little bit frankly. a lot of them things should have been doing four years, i don't know, appointings atf director or prosecuting gun crimes. he promises to do more even though gun prosecutions gone down 40% since the bush administration. the question is are the things dearest to his heart, assault weapons ban, are they going to help with something like newtown or something just for show? the fact is, in connecticut there was an assault weapons ban in place. the fact is, that for columbine, there was a national assault weapons ban in place. my question when you take away rights from law-abiding people are actually doing anything that will solve the violence problem? or are you just doing things for show becaus
i'm mara phrasing it but. >> [ra is bipartisan group of millions of americans want to protect the second amendment and aproves from many senators and house members. hear them smeared as extremists is ridiculous. they have constitutionally to then together to protect their rights. the legislative hurdle is high. that is why he came out with the executive orders. i think he blinked a little bit frankly. a lot of them things should have been doing four years, i don't know, appointings atf...
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i have lived surrounded by immigrants, my neighbors are immigrants, i'm mara into a family of immigrants. i see the good of immigration every day, how important it is for our future. as most americans, i know how critical the immigration system has been for our heritage and our future. by the same token, i see the negative is that illegal immigration is causing our country. these are issues that the vast majority of americans agree with. they believe we do have a legal immigration system that works and they recognize that we have now is not the 21st century legal immigration system and that is why i am so pleased the first principle in this effort is one to modernize our immigration system so it reflects the reality and the needs of the 21st century. by the same token, we recognize the market has a right to reform immigration laws. that is why i am pleased to look at these out lines. this will insure that we are never here again with a situation that we face today. none of this is possible if we did not address the real and yet there are 11 million human beings in this country today that
i have lived surrounded by immigrants, my neighbors are immigrants, i'm mara into a family of immigrants. i see the good of immigration every day, how important it is for our future. as most americans, i know how critical the immigration system has been for our heritage and our future. by the same token, i see the negative is that illegal immigration is causing our country. these are issues that the vast majority of americans agree with. they believe we do have a legal immigration system that...
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i have lived surrounded by immigrants, my neighbors are immigrants, i'm mara into a family of immigrants. i see the good of immigration every day, how important it is for our future. as most americans, i know how critical the immigration system has been for our heritage and our future. by the same token, i see the negative is that illegal immigration is causing our country. these are issues that the vast majority of americans agree with. they believe we do have a legal immigration system that works and they recognize that we have now is not the 21st century legal immigration system and that is why i am so pleased the first principle in this effort is one to modernize our immigration system so it reflects the reality and the needs of the 21st century. by the same token, we recognize the market has a right to reform immigration laws. that is why i am pleased to look at these out lines. this will insure that we are never here again with a situation that we face today. none of this is possible if we did not address the real and yet there are 11 million human beings in this country today that
i have lived surrounded by immigrants, my neighbors are immigrants, i'm mara into a family of immigrants. i see the good of immigration every day, how important it is for our future. as most americans, i know how critical the immigration system has been for our heritage and our future. by the same token, i see the negative is that illegal immigration is causing our country. these are issues that the vast majority of americans agree with. they believe we do have a legal immigration system that...
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with a bombing of a sue mara mosque in the spring of 2006, that was the fuse that actually started what looked and felt up close like a civil war. so he became hugely powerful and although we killed him that june, what he had done carried on after that. >> you just described it as you do in the book that he created a network. or a network of networks. and in the book you lay out how your task force then had to create a network to go after the network. your network was a classic example of the intelligence cycle at work. collecting information, analyzing information, exploiting it. can you give us kind of a sense of how that network worked? how it evolved? what the pieces of it were? and ultimately the speed with which you were turning things around, from collection to exploitation? >> sure. i had grown up in an era where we thought of terrorist groups as fairly bounded, narrowly focused entities with a certain number of people in them and that if you were able to attract those people or to decapitate it, that would you essentially cause the problem to stop. at the beginning of the war a
with a bombing of a sue mara mosque in the spring of 2006, that was the fuse that actually started what looked and felt up close like a civil war. so he became hugely powerful and although we killed him that june, what he had done carried on after that. >> you just described it as you do in the book that he created a network. or a network of networks. and in the book you lay out how your task force then had to create a network to go after the network. your network was a classic example of...